Fred Thompson has again shown himself to be a wise man. He agrees with me:

“From what I read in the papers, it looks to me like some of the same familiar refrains are playing when I look at Senator Clinton’s situation,” Mr. Thompson told reporters yesterday during his first campaign swing through California. “I’m not going to jump to any conclusions or make any accusations until all the facts are in, but when I see people who are in the newspapers bundling large sums of money from mysterious sources, I must say it brings back some very unfond memories for me when I was chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee and we investigated those matters in the ’90s with regard to President Clinton.”

For those who don’t know, Sen. Clinton has been raising some serious jack. It is the source of all that money that is troublesome:

Dishwashers, waiters, and other low-income workers in New York’s Chinatown recorded as donating tens of thousands of dollars to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign this year could not be located by journalists or lacked the immigration status needed to donate legally, according to a recent report in the Los Angeles Times.

This didn’t stop the Clinton machine last time, but I have a feeling it will really damage the Clinton brand this time. If the other Democratic candidates have any sense at all, they will take this issue and run with it. But, since that is predicated on a Democratic candidate having sense, we probably won’t see it.